The race talk

• Main Author: Orelus, Pierre W. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
• Subjects: Black people > Race identity > United States.; African Americans > Social conditions.; United States > Race relations.; Social Science > Cultural & Ethnic Studies > American > African American & Black Studies.; Relating to African American, Black American people.; Ethnic studies.; United States of America, USA.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806614530
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-914-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 126 pages)

Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected to it, such as racial identity politics, racism, multiracialism, interracial relationships, and the hegemony of whiteness. This book goes further to analyze the ma...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The race talk
• Chapter 2. Asserting multiracialism: Beyond the hegemony of whiteness
• Chapter 3. Racial identity politics and class divide in the age of obamerica
• Chapter 4. Unpacking [inter] racial relationships between whites and people of color
• Chapter 5. Examining the intricacies of interracial relationships
• Chapter 6. Being blacks and browns in the twenty-first century: Challenges and possibilities
• Chapter 7. On being a professor of color: Battling invisibility and microaggression
• Chapter 8. Black skin could speak: Resistant narratives for racial justice
• Chapter 9. The sociopolitical weight of race: A critical analysis of president obama, professor gates, and sgt. Crowley's racial controversy
• References
• About the author
• Index.